Don't be playin' no kike tricks on me now.
I said Microsoft made APIs available, which is true, but that's not an open standard. It's different to an embedded controller running completely undocumented (outside the company) software.
From memory (too lazy to look) that is what Joshua more or less shat out of his mouth, because he's a retard of course, but it isn't what me
meant to say, in my opinion.
What, in my opinion, he meant to say was that Microsoft products are lock-in havens much like the Apple, Google, and Deere walled gardens are, though not in the same way. My argument was that you start down the rabbit hole of Windows, which is ever increasingly restrictive in and of itself, and you get fucked into a bunch of other shit that keeps you dependent on Microsoft, sorta how Deere owners remain dependent on Deere. This is the only way his drivel makes sense, to me.
I think its less obvious with Microsoft, but much worse, because if everybody uses Windows, Office, whatever, then you're the odd duck out if you don't also buy (pirate?) those products. A big part of why Linux doesn't have better uptake is that mass dependence on Windows and other Microsoft products. There is no Office for Linux, I mean, you can try LibreOffice if you want, I find it a waste of my time personally.
Has anyone noticed how easy Microsoft products are to pirate? They're literally doing the WinRAR thing, ie. getting their software into as many hands as possible, and in Microsoft's case, it's for maximum lock-in.